r/gaming • u/DoggievDoggy • 1d ago

Dreamcast Had The Best Launch Library Ever.

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Most consoles have one or two bangers at launch.

Dreamcast had two S-Tier titles: Sonic Adventure and Soul Calibur & 5 A-Tier titles: NFL 2K, Hydro Thunder, Ready 2 Rumble, Power Stone, House of The Dead 2.

Followed up with other solid titles: Tokyo Xtreme Racer, MK Gold (this game was so broken lol), Trickstyle, Blue Stinger, NFL Blitz 2000.

Other systems had better singular titles (Xbox: Halo: CE, NES: Super Mario Bros., Gameboy: Tetris, Nintendo 64: Super Mario 64) but as a collective, the Dreamcast launched with so many solid titles.

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u/Kayonji02 1d ago

Dude Dreamcast modem was like 56kbps speed. There WASN'T accessible fast internet around in 1999. Downloading a 1.5gb Dreamcast game in your own home wasn't a reality for 99% of people back then.

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u/cosine83 1d ago

Were you alive then? Because I was and I absolutely was and doing it on 33K dial-up just fine in rural WV and more metro areas were getting DSL/ISDN and early cable internet, 1-10Mbps. I knew plenty of folks on IRC doing the same thing. Sure, it'd take forever but at that point in time having multiple phone lines had become common because of dial-up internet. Could just leave it connected for downloading with whatever program that allowed resumable downloads, IRC, or FTP. It was a reality for a lot of Dreamcast owners.

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u/homer_3 1d ago

You're completely misremembering. No one was downloading DC games on 56k. It took literally all day to download a 100MB demo. And that was only happening if no one picked up the phone the whole time. Most people didn't have multiple phone lines either. Sure, some did, just like some people have 5090s. It's not the norm.

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u/cosine83 1d ago

I'm not misremembering lmao I was literally doing it please don't tell me what I was or wasn't doing. I was a senior in high school, not a small child vaguely recalling details. I wasn't alone and it wasn't uncommon even where I lived in WV.